I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.
BENJAMIN CARSONHealth care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything.
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We’ve gotten into this – this mindset of fighting politically correct wars. There is no such thing as a politically correct war.
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Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.
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I’m convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.
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We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.
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Under Islamic Law, homosexuals – men and women alike – must be killed. Women must be subservient. And people following other religions must be killed.
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We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else’s problems.
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People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.
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By thinking big, we can transform our world.
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America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that’s what will get us on the right track now, as well.
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One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.
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Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.
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And I know you’re not supposed to say ‘Nazi Germany,’ but I don’t care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe.
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Patients do better when they have faith that they’re going to do better. That’s why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There’s nobody I don’t say that to.
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The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you’ve ever seen, everything you’ve ever heard.
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What the Muslim Brotherhood said in the explanatory memorandum that was discovered during the Holy Land Foundation Trial was that, “they will take advantage of our PC attitude to get us”.
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Our schools too often want to shut people up so they can’t talk about real solutions. People who think differently tend to clam up because they think something is wrong with their ideas.
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You can understand why I’m a believer. I have seen miracles.
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Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.
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We’re not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
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People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
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If you go into Hasakah province in northeast Syria, that’s an area that’s as big as Lebanon. It’s controlled by the Kurds, the Christians and the moderate Sunnis. And there are airstrips and hotels. You could settle a lot of people there.
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Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.
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You can’t allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, ‘Merry Christmas?’ Give me a break. If people don’t like it, yeah, they can go do something else.
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Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.
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Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.
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Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God’s sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.
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